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Enhancing the Employability of Unskilled and Unemployed Young Adults: Practical Guidelines

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A great need exists to enhance the employability and develop the (career) adaptability of (unskilled and) unemployed young adults (UUYA). In this chapter, we examine interventions that may address this need. We begin the chapter by highlighting key aspects of employability counselling and discussing the life- and career counselling-based principles and employability literature on which the intervention is based. Next, we focus on an overview of the intervention itself. This is followed by a detailed description and elaboration of each activity (mentioned in the intervention plan), after which the chapter is concluded.

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    Actual research (based on the intervention described and proposed in the current chapter) yielded very promising outcomes (Gerryts, 2018; Maree, Gerryts, Fletcher, 7 Jordaan, in press) and inspired this chapter.

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    See Fig. 1, where ‘rap’ is explained.

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    Jacobus G. Maree & Erna W. Gerryts

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Addendum 1—Biographical Form (BF)

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Addendum 2—Example of a Body Map

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Maree, J.G., Gerryts, E.W. (2019). Enhancing the Employability of Unskilled and Unemployed Young Adults: Practical Guidelines. In: Maree, J. (eds) Handbook of Innovative Career Counselling . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22799-9_25

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